The state-of-the-art and perspectives of laser ablation for tumor treatment

Y Fan, L Xu, S Liu, J Li, J Xia, X Qin, Y Li… - Cyborg and Bionic …, 2024 - spj.science.org
Tumors significantly impact individuals' physical well-being and quality of life. With the
ongoing advancements in optical technology, information technology, robotic technology …

Advances in the treatment of pediatric brain tumors

ES Kulubya, MJ Kercher, HW Phillips, R Antony… - Children, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pediatric brain tumors are the most common solid malignancies in children. Advances in the
treatment of pediatric brain tumors have come in the form of imaging, biopsy, surgical …

Laser interstitial thermal therapy for the treatment of primary and metastatic brain tumors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M Alkazemi, YT Lo, H Hussein, M Mammi, S Saleh… - World Neurosurgery, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) is a minimally invasive treatment option
for intracranial tumors that are challenging to treat via traditional methods; however, its …

Emerging indications for stereotactic laser interstitial thermal therapy in pediatric neurosurgery

M Remick, MM McDowell, K Gupta… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Surgical treatment of deep or difficult to access lesions represents a unique and significant
challenge for pediatric neurosurgeons. The introduction of stereotactic magnetic resonance …

Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) for pediatric patients affected by intracranial tumors

B Spacca, M Di Maurizio, M Grandoni… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The surgical treatment of brain tumors has evolved over time, offering different
strategies tailored to patients and their specific lesions. Among these strategies, Laser …

Magnetic resonance imaging–guided stereotactic laser ablation therapy for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy: a retrospective multiinstitutional study

EV Arocho-Quinones, SM Lew, MH Handler… - Journal of …, 2023 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE The authors of this study evaluated the safety and efficacy of stereotactic laser
ablation (SLA) for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) in children. METHODS …

Surgical outcomes of open and laser interstitial thermal therapy approaches for corpus callosotomy in pediatric epilepsy

DJ Aum, RA Reynolds, S McEvoy, S Tomko… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Corpus callosotomy (CC) is a palliative surgical intervention for patients with
medically refractory epilepsy that has evolved in recent years to include a less‐invasive …

Magnetic resonance–guided laser interstitial thermal therapy for brain tumors in geriatric patients

EE Ginalis, SF Danish - Neurosurgical focus, 2020 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE There is a paucity of studies assessing the use of MR-guided laser interstitial
thermal therapy (LITT), specifically in the elderly population. The aim of this study was to …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in imaging modalities for pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors

TAGM Huisman, R Patel, S Kralik, NK Desai… - Pediatric …, 2023 - karger.com
Background: Neuroimaging has evolved from anatomical imaging toward a multi-modality
comprehensive anatomical and functional imaging in the past decades, important functional …

Laser interstitial thermal therapy is effective and safe for the treatment of brain tumors in NF1 patients after cerebral revascularization for moyamoya angiopathy: a …

L Guida, K Beccaria, S Benichi, M Kossorotof… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The co-occurrence of moyamoya vasculopathy and extra-optic pathway tumors
is rare in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), with only four cases described in the literature …